MORNING KOMBAT WITH LUKE THOMAS AND BRIAN CAMPBELL - Conor McGregor’s UFC 329 Viewership Predictions | Top 5 Fights to Make for Rest of 2026

Episode Date: July 3, 2026

UFC 329 is a little over a week away, so Luke Thomas and Jed Meshew look ahead to the highly-anticipated return of Conor McGregor against Max Holloway in a welterweight bout. The fellas predict the audience UFC 329 is going to receive and how it will compare to the White House event. The guys also list the top 5 fights they'd like to see in the second half of the year. Plus more in the boxing world and events taking place this weekend.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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We're going to do it to me, two weeks. Your marks get set and go on. It's Friday. You ain't got no job. You ain't got us to do. So welcome to morning. Combat. Hello, everyone. On this third day of July, 26, my name is Luke Thomas, and welcome to another edition. My camera's a little high. I'm going to have to put that down here in just a minute.

Another edition of morning combat. I do not join you from the capital of Estatus of Meadows in Washington, D.C., but I'm still on planet Earth next to my friend and compatriot, a man who, well, I don't know. Has he done whippets in the back of a parking lot? Not yet is the answer. It's the one and only MMA fighting Jed Michoud. Hi, Jed, how are you? If I hadn't already done the full Team America, you know, for the White House card, I would be absolutely decked out after our boy stuck it to Bosnia and Herzl, whatever. That's right. 2-0.

Red card be damned. We're going all the way. You're next, Belgium. I watched that game with a bunch of people who are not American, and they were much higher on the U.S. men's national team than I am. And I'd like to tell you why. They looked really good yesterday. Here's the thing.

They've looked good this whole tournament. You can't watch the games and be like, they look bad or they're lucking their way in. That Tillman free kick goal yesterday was ridiculous. Okay. But here's the thing. And I'm going to keep saying this. And the next game, Belgium will be really a great case for this.

The USA always beats them. Not always. But it can beat the teams that it's supposed to beat. It can beat Algeria. It can beat Bosnia, Herzegovina. It can beat Paraguay. Can it beat a really- Germany can't be Paraguay.

I'm not worried, but I'm not German. I'm not worried about Germany. I'm saying I'll believe that this is a year that's different when they actually beat a good team because they haven't really done that. Like a good team. They haven't done that yet. No. I mean, we're about to see because the rest of the run through is like probably, I mean, it is Belgium. Then it's like probably Spain into France.

Yeah. And if somehow we get through that, it's Argentina. Like that's a, and we got a tough slate if we could. win them all. But somebody on the broadcast said this yesterday and it was like, I think it's true. What you said is correct. Right. Luke, like that's, I can't argue that. But we have one in different ways this year, which is heartening, right? Like, we have put people to the sword when that's what we're supposed to do. We kind of lumped up Paraguay. You know, we gave up one, but like, we, Germany couldn't do shit to them. And then we, this one was the like, to bring it back to

MMA terms. This is, you know, you don't have your fastball. You maybe suffer an injury. You get Carlos Olberg and you just find a way to grind it out and get a W after we're playing 10 men for for 30 minutes. So love the squad. I never am like super patriotic except for World Cup and Olympics. And then the rest of the countries be damned. I believe that we will win. I hate that catchphrase for the team, but they are playing great. We'll see how it goes. So on today's show as you guys know there's some MMA this weekend for sure there always kind of is but there's nothing

really of grand significance there are some interesting things happening around the combat sports universe and we're going to touch on that but we're kind of just going to look ahead and have a little fun with these topics here on this day let's bring in the third member here of the show questionably sober but unquestionably down for MK it's Long Island Luke how are you doing

there LIL I'm doing good you know I had to just suffer through you guys talking about soccer for three minutes but other than that it's pretty good morning guys we are pre-recording this. I take full responsibility. I'm going to Massachusetts for the weekend. So, you know, I had to, had to dip out early Friday. So I apologize

to everyone. But, you know, no MMA this week, no major MMA this weekend. Want to be clear. Luke, you just mentioned that. But, you know, we do a big fight card next weekend. I forget the main event, man. That card is pretty fucking stacked. It looked pretty dope. I'm excited. So I was genuinely shocked by how, like, we were, I was in a meeting yesterday.

And I hadn't looked ahead at it. I was just like, it's a counter card. It'll be buns. No. Because, like, they don't need anything else. And then I was like, actually, this card is quite strong. So, yeah, really good card. Yeah, I mean, this is kind of surprising because typically these countercards, as you indicated, it can be a little bit barren down the line, but not this time. It does have some pretty sturdy quality.

We're going to talk about that. Well, we'll talk about that card in general. We'll talk about, we'll look at, as I mentioned, around sort of what's happening in the weekend in a lighter note. Some people moving away classes, what would be some good fights for them? You get the idea. So thumbs up on the video. If you haven't already, please hit subscribe. We do have memberships now on the channel.

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just a little bit here. Jed? I've got to now. Yeah. Jed, are you doing anything fun for vacation? Yes, I am, Luke. So we are, you know, you said we're pre-recording this. I've got some other work to do for MAAFind.com. Great website. Today, we're doing our fantasy draft and then a couple other

odds and ends. And then I'm headed up to the always classy. And I know you know of this place, Luke. Lake Lanier really just, living my best life up at Lake Lanier this weekend. Bro, they got Gar the size of crocodiles up in Lake Lanier. What are you doing out there? You know, going to hang out on the boat, probably imbibe various beverages. You know, have a good time.

Try not to suffer any grievous injury because that's a thing that happens to Lake Lanier a lot. And, you know, just generally, you know, celebrate the fourth and a weekend of minimal MMA. Well, I wish you luck. Please don't you. In the famous words of Lloyd Christmas in Dumb and Dumber, don't you go dying on me. All right. With that in mind, let's get this show started if you're ready. Topic number one.

So I said, we're going to have some fun with this. There's no major MMA this weekend. We will talk about some of the other MMA that's happening a little bit down the line. But I kind of want to start with an interesting question. I think it feels pretty interesting to me, which is, look, we all saw the UFC White House numbers, the viewership. We saw on Paramount Plus. what happened in the Western Hemisphere in Latin America and the United States. And then we got the full picture, the global picture for the full slate of ways in which people can get UFC in different countries that's outside of Paramount Plus.

We all saw it, you know, 7 million domestically, 8 and some change for the whole hemisphere, 34 million globally. There's a lot of different ways that you can look at that. So let's set that as a benchmark because by the UFC's own admission, that's the most watched live event in Paramount Plus history. But here comes Connor McGregor. Now, Cona McGregor comes in with a lot of questions. He comes in of a long absence. He comes in controversially, given some of the legal matters that he has had to deal with, not just the sexual assault case, but other ones as well.

Can he do a bigger number on Paramount Plus than the UFC White House card? As we just indicated, that UFC 329 card, obviously the deciding factor in whether or not it beats the White House card Jed is going to be Connor McGregor. but there's a lot of quality up and down. So what is your read? Which event in the end is going to do a bigger number on Paramount Plus? And what's your reasoning for that answer? I think the White House is going to do a bigger number.

But I'm not like I wouldn't bet my life on it, right? Like I have a level of confidence in it just because the White House was such a weird thing. You know, we spent forever talking about it in the pregame preview and in the weeks and months leading up to it. such a outlier to anything else, right? Like, there were fights on the White House lawn, sanctioned cage fights. It's like a crazy thing. And that drew, that was the star of the event. And I know Connor McGregor is the biggest star in MMA history. The White House is a bigger star than Connor McGregor is. And so the sort of really idiosyncratic nature of it, I drew at least

some level of interest very broadly to be like, what the hell is going on here? here. Like, what is this about? Whereas a Connor McGregor, right, he is going to draw in, I think in the White House card, you, Luke, you sort of explained it as like there's the MMA bubble and there's the sports bubble and then there's the bigger, broader political media, any, you know, excess bubble. And Connor will get in that sports bubble. He will pull that in for sure. Casual people still know Connor McGregor. But he's not going to really exceed that. And I don't think there's going to be that, you know, oh, let's see what this is about. Like, it'll be your tuning in because you have some interest in watching Connor,

not the pure sideshowness of it. That being said, there are some, like, there are some reasons to think that it could be bigger, right? This is on a Saturday night, as opposed to a Sunday late at night where people have worked the next day, so that can draw them. You know, like it is Connor McGregor. He has done a full court media push the last couple of weeks.

I anticipate that will continue this next week. He will probably do something very, very silly at several of the events with Max to get more interest, more heat. And so I think it's very possible that this is like the biggest non-White House event the UFC puts together. But the White House is just so spectacular. It's hard for me to imagine it passes that. I have a, maybe I can split the difference here.

So here's my kind of hunch. I think that remember, this thing is all fucked up. I'm going to fix this in a minute. But remember that Paramount Plus obviously has a bit of a narrow reach relative to some of the ways you can get UFC in other countries. So the 34 million figure is in places where, for example, UFC is just on basic cable. So it's not an apples to apples comparison in that sense. However, here's my feeling. My feeling is there's a very good chance this beat.

the White House card on Paramount Plus and doesn't beat the worldwide number. So let me explain my reasoning on this and see what you think, Jed. My initial thought when we were getting to the UFC White House card as we were like a week out or a few, you know, when we did the pregame, as the bubble you just indicated, like the concentric circles with with MMA kind of at the center, MMA media, then sports media, and then the big circle was political. But as we got closer, I realized that sports media was not really part of the equation. Political media certainly was.

They had a huge outsized role, but not so much on the other side. So it almost ended up going just MMA skipping sports and then going to the political side. Now you're going to get the reverse with Connor. You're not really going to get the political angle because there isn't much of one. I mean, I suppose there's a tiny one, but you get the points. And there really isn't much of one. But there's a lot from that sports place to pull. And, you know, Paramount Plus obviously is limited by its own reach in certain ways.

But, you know, you do catch NFL games. games on there. You can put, like, sports fans have some point of reference with Paramount Plus Champions League. I think you name it. I actually think he's going to pull a bigger number on Paramount Plus because of the sports adjacency. But I don't think that the worldwide intrigue that the White House card had is going to follow Connor. Connor has a worldwide reach. Like, let's be serious, but not in this kind of highly unique one of one way, even if it is a comeback. fight, which itself is kind of unique. So what do you think?

Do you, does that make sense that Connor could actually outperform in certain ways and then underperform in others? Yes, but like just to put a number on it, do you think Connor's drawing what the domestic Paramount Plus thing was like, what? 17? 10? What was it? The 17 million figure, people get wrong.

So the 17 million figure. That's US and Latin America. Well, it's not, it's not even a real thing. And I'm not trying to be this guy. because I know obviously I was very critical of the event along political lines, but I'm not trying to be a dick about this. The numbers are unequivocally good. That's 17 million.

They were just plucking something out because they wanted to have some kind of Netflix comparison. What that is is Uniques that watched for one minute. Like that's, I mean, you know, I don't know what that means. Like, that's not real viewership. The real viewership was 7 million in the United States or, yeah, in the U.S., and then in the hemisphere, eight and some change, which again, is a very good number. And then 34 overall.

I think Connor can beat that. I do. I think Connor can beat that. I don't know. I mean, that's a really big number for just. Let me add one more data point. Hold on. Let me add one more data point. The other data point was if you looked at the fight between Patty and Justin, USC 324, which was the debut on Paramount Plus,

that was, I think, low fours, sorry, high fours, low fives. So let's just say five, just what the difference. So the card, in terms of Paramount Plus in the United States, from that card to the White House. They only added 2 million viewers. I think Connor can do more than that here. I really, really do. Look, like I said, I am not willing to bet anything of substance on either side of this ball, right?

And you make an argument that's reasonable. It is hard for me to think that Connor McGregor, who hasn't fought in five years, you know, it's been a very long time since he's been an active participant. in our lives in a positive way, right? Like the only times you're really hearing about him are not things that you're like stoked on. He hasn't fought. I could see splitting the difference between like the White House 8 million and the, you know, five or whatever that gate chief and do something into like six, seven domestic,

which would also still like at this point, it is really picking nits. That would be an enormous success. Like, anyway, you cut it. I will be very impressed if he pulls more than the White House car, just straight up. And if he does, we're going to hear about it because that man is not going to sit there and not talk about doing that shit. And as well, he should. So if he can do it, that would be really impressive, frankly. Long Island, weigh in on this debate.

Do you think Connor can't beat the worldwide number and the domestic number? When I say domestic, I mean Western Hemisphere. So U.S. and Latin America. can he beat one and not the other? Where do you come down on this? I think I'm with you, LT, where I think he can beat the Paramount Plus number, like the domestic number. I don't know if he's going to beat the global number. That just seems like way too much.

But one thing I don't think you guys mentioned is like the White House card was on a Sunday night. So like. Jed mentioned that. Yeah. So this is on a Saturday. That's very helpful. And for especially like I just mentioned the domestic number, but for the international number, that is huge. Because those guys, that's like a Monday morning for them.

You think anyone was watching the white Dennis from submission radio You think he was watching the white house card? No my man was at work You know like so that kind of sucks This card gonna be Sunday morning For if you're in Australia or wherever you know So I feel like he could beat the paramount

In fact I do think he beats the power of power I think he exceeds seven million Like that's what you said it is Luke seven Yes the US number is seven Yeah I think he'll exceed that honestly I just we just haven't mentioned it And I don't this probably won't matter For the domestic conversation

unless our boys get there. That Saturday is the quarterfinals or two of the four quarterfinals for the World Cup. So that could also like, certainly globally probably would put a little hit in that. If you got a 9 p.m. game. So like you could still maybe tune in. Maybe that just helps.

Maybe that functions as a lead into the actual Conner fight if it's a 9 p.m. quarterfinal game. But like the card does have some significant competition from a sporting standpoint globally, certainly. And when America's in the quarterfinals, obviously domestically, he's going to lose out to our boys in blue.

Does CBS broadcast any of the World Cup? No. No, it's a Fox. There's no lead in or anything from it. All right. Yeah, no, just Fox. Yeah, because if there was a, to your point, can you imagine if CBS actually did have the World Cup rights

and there was like a lead-in like that? Can you imagine if a U.S. men's national team game, game was a and again, I'm positing a very fantastical scenario. Can you imagine if they beat a big team and that was the lead in to like a big time UFC main event? Dude, that would be fucking gigantic. You know, you're talking about an audience of 20 million or more getting a lead in. That's huge.

Yeah. So it looks like I'm looked at the pulled up the schedule. The U.S. men would be playing on Friday anyway, so not Saturday. So they wouldn't be the blocker here. Mexico and or Brazil look like they will be or that could either be Brazil Mexico or Brazil, England for the 5 p.m. game that day. And then Argentina versus whoever comes out of the rest of that dog shit into the bracket.

This is not what we're talking about, but as you just talked about like a CBS lead-in, genuinely one of the big things I've thought about since White House and it being a categorical tremendous success is like it did that with many blockers to it. And I just wish I knew like what it could have done unencumbered. If it was on a Saturday instead of on a Sunday, like how would that? And if it was on big CBS too and not behind the paramount paywall, like how many people might have tuned into that domestically?

I have no idea. And I kind of wish we would know because like that would be, that would be pretty fun. And the other part too is I noticed that, you know, when they did, so I went back and I looked at the UFC 324 press release when they were bragging about their viewership numbers. There were two big differences with that one versus the White House card. One was in the Patty and Gaichi fight, they shared the peak. The word peak is never mentioned in the press release for the White House numbers. And the other difference was they said they had added a million subs as a consequence.

Now, in their quarterly report, they actually said they only added for the entire quarter of that year, 700,000. so there was obviously an enormous amount of churn. But I guess my point is, to that end, Connor McGregor on a Saturday night return fight, does that do more to get people to put Paramount Plus on their TVs or their devices than a Sunday night UFC card, which again could have for some anyway, political overtones or, again, Sunday night, do people want to watch it? They didn't know who was on the card, you name it.

I think there's a real shot at it. Yeah, I'm actually kind of leaning towards that. It could. Just anecdotally, you know, you, you're doing a great job of giving us data points and numbers, but I'm more of a vibes guy, you know. Are you, you know, very Brian Campbell in that sense. Yeah, just vibes. Small about fives. You're in Columbia. Oh, yeah. Like, how are you? Because I have heard, and, you know, we're still a week away, so it's not entirely unheard of. I have the White House card drew people asking me about it for weeks beforehand. I've got. got none of that for the Connor return. Now, maybe in the next couple of days, that will happen.

But, like, are you getting any anecdotal evidence that people are, like, pumped for the return of Connor McGregor? Anecdotally, no. Not yet. Not yet. I will say that too. That definitely, that can be, you know, it's a loose way to kind of assess buzz. But I got to, I got to chime in here and just say, zero questions for my casual friends leading up to Freedom 250. Really? A bunch of questions about Connor leading up to this. Is he going to be? Is he going to make it a fight night you think he actually shows up all these are like the questions everyone's yeah that's what i mean dude like Connor could be right man Connor pulls from more sports ready casual audiences than a political kind of considered event i don't know it's it's going to be it's going to be really interesting to see and i think you would just agree to wrap this up

i would not be surprised if connor beats it i think i would put it that way yeah no he he is certainly capable of doing that so we shall see in the end all right Let's go to topic number two. So it is now January. It's January 2nd. We're pre-recording. It's January 3rd when you're watching this. But the year is half over.

And I'm not trying to do a war. Did you say January? What I say? Oh, excuse me. It is July. You did say January. Yes. Automatic dead wrong.

Automatic dead wrong. It's July. I apologize. The year is halfway over. And so what I wanted to do was I kind of wanted to look ahead to the rest of the year. And I want to do it in the following way, which is give me your top five fights to make later this year. But there's a bit of a caveat with this. the catch is it cannot be something that is basically widely anticipated to happen by virtue of ranking or status.

So, for example, Marab versus Yom 2, we kind of all know is probably going to happen. Or Kayla Amanda, we kind of all know is going to happen. That doesn't mean you couldn't pick a title fight, but you've got to think about fights that are now organically being put together as a result of just where we are in the calendar and less so based on what the last victory of the champion was. So with that in mind, Jed Mishu, why don't you go first, walk me through your top five fights to make for the rest of the year along this criteria? I do want caveat just beforehand because I was trying not to pick title fights. Because, like, realistically, if I had the power of the pin, Justin Gachie versus Armand Srucun is the thing I would want.

Theoretically, that will happen based on ranking, but lightweight is so up in the air. So I was like, I just didn't really pick title fights with one minor exception and that you will get to it. Our lists have one crossover, Luke, and it is to me, like, the most interesting fight or like the one I want just to see from like a pure violence standpoint. Morales, Bratius, like that just who isn't signing up to watch that? And it feels like it should happen, right, as far as winnowing down the welterweight contenders for Izamakov and or Ian Machado Gary. If you put my graphic back up, I put Shavka-Rachmano versus Jack Della Madalena.

This is mostly Shavkat, I think, should be ready to fight by the end of the year, and I really want to see him fight again. And Jack Della was the name who was out there as an available option. Yia Pajka versus Reiner-Durator, people who have listened to me speak know how much I love both of these big silly bozos. And I've talked for years about the two of them, Andrickus Duplessi, fighting each other. RDR's moving up to late heavyweight, Uri's outside of the title picture. Let's just have a very, very bozo-filled fight.

You would hate that fight, Luke, it would be your least favorite fight of all time because you don't like fun or joy or happiness, but I would love it. The Gachie Binwasan Deney is a fight that, like, shouldn't happen. I just really want to see those two dudes fight, so however we can make that happen, if Binwasanee beats Patty,

and they say, F it, do it, sign me the hell up. And then I wanted to go one non-UFC bout just for funzies. And after Rico looked really surprisingly shockingly good against Dusick. And you know, they talked about doing Nganoo beforehand. Let's do that one, you know. Let's let's make that happen. Let's have some fun outside of the Octagon. All right. Let's go through this list. Put it up here one more time if you can. All right. So Morales process, that's the one that we share. I mean, that one is so self-explanatory. Just joy is how you would describe this about. Rachmano versus Jadim, I would love to see.

I actually really like this pick from you. It's just, you know, I don't know where Rockmanov is. Frankly, I don't know where JPM is. But this is great matchmaking because they both have a lot to answer for here. Rachmanov with the injury and the time off, JDM with like, you know, the consecutive really demoralizing losses. For Hotchka, RDR, I actually really like, but this is, you know, I mean, this is a one way to get the long town right here, right?

Yeah, it's the most. fun. Okay. I mean, I guess you could do this. I guess you could do that. I don't hate that fight. I don't, doesn't move me quite with the spirit the way that it is for you.

The big one for me, though, is the Gachy BSD fight. And I want to be clear about this. Like, again, no one would look at this Jed and be like Gachy versus BSD is bad. But I would argue that it's not really necessary. It doesn't. It shouldn't happen. By no means should it occur. Okay.

You're just having fun with the pairing. I've wanted that fight for years because I didn't look we live in oral Justin Gachie's the undisputed champion and I didn't think that was happening. I got just I still kind of can't wrap my head around it and I like BSD feels so poised to be the next like great action fighter and we got to see him fight Dustin Porre and since then I'm like I really want to see him fight Justin Gagie if he gets him down he could win but he also might get spot like I just want to see it. it. And so, you know, it's not going to happen. And so I've made my peace, but you gave me an opportunity to talk about a fight that I've desperately wanted. And I took it. I took that in the, like I not on that graphic. I apparently gave you six because the other fight that I have is like, I don't want to want to see this fight, but I do kind of want to see Alex Perrier or Josh hook it. But I'd rather like, if you're giving me the choice, give me Gage of BSD. Let's get real stupid.

that is indeed a fight of uh we just portends craziness and then the one i really like on this list was the ingano versus vera who and these guys have trained together i honestly do think that that you know how big is that i was a main event on netflix i don't know but nevertheless like just as a hardcore fan's intrigue yeah i'd be maybe francis wrestles him and you know it's not as interesting but for as long as they're on the feet that seems like a shitload of fun so i actually really really like that one you had a good list i like your list all right yeah your list is solid, but I have one quibble with it. Okay, okay.

So let's see My list now. And again, these are the top five. Again, nothing inevitable, nothing or it's number one contender. You're waiting on it. So first, Teporia versus Pimbley. I mean, talk about a get-back fight for Tuporia. I think this would be great. Send Pimblit's chin into fucking orbit.

What could be greater? All right. So there's that one. O'Malley versus Yon, too, controversial first fight. But if you go back and you watch it really fun, and actually a very, O'Malley, underperformed in certain ways, but definitely overperformed in others. Jan in a similar kind of sense.

Sterling versus Jayon Silva, I just think that this fight is really fun. Sterling is the kind of guy that's going to test Silva's silliness. You know, is like he's surfing on people and shit like that. Like, you're not going to be able to get away with that against Al Jermaine Sterling, at least if he's able to get a hold of you.

So are you versus Oliva, too? I admit, Jed, is not a fight that you need to make. But I don't know. Like, if they're not going to be able to get some, I'm going to a title shot and maybe they would, but let's just presume for the moment that they, they wouldn't because they want to send Gachi in a different

direction. Honestly, I do think there could be a lot of fun, especially this time at five rounds versus three, and then the same one that we had together, Morales versus Prochess. All right. So what do you think about my list?

What did I get right? What did I get wrong? So I probably would have had Teporia Pimblit, but your list was first, and I didn't want to have us just overlap, because that seemed like bad content. but that fight makes all the sense in the world so a okay with that i was willing for us to overlap or morale's protest because that's like that's just stupidly good right i'm like i'm not going

to argue that point sterling john sylva i just i think is very good matchmaking uh much like you said about mine like that's just probably just should happen for the advancement of the weight class uh surukin olivera just doesn't if that if they booked it it's good fight doesn't tickle me, right? Like, I'd rather see Serokee and Tepori or something, but like a good fight I can't have any issues with. The one is the Sean O'Malley Piotrion, because that

feel, to me, that felt very much like we, it was the thing that you were outside of the parameters of like, widely anticipated to happen. It seems like that is going to happen. No, they're going to give it to Marab, right? Maybe.

I'm not certain. The way I picked it, the reason I picked it was because I was working under the assumption that Marab was going to be next. I mean, he should be next. I, 60, 40 that he's next, like, they love Sean Amalley. They want to give him chances and like to do that might be, it's not, again, it's, we're picking Nits here because also their first fight was sensational. So that's cool. But like, that's in the G. G. B.S.D. category to me of like, like, Yeah, this probably isn't the best one you threw up there.

But like, it'd be really fun. Fair enough. All right. Let's see Long Island's list. Long Island, walk us through the list that you made. All right. So number one, I got Sean O'Malley, Corey Santee. I mean, this feels like the Dakota Ditch of a Liz Karmouche of the UFC, you know,

like a fight we should have made probably five fights ago, then four fights ago, then three. Like every time they're both unbooked. It's like, oh, we should make that. And then they don't make it. A ton of fun could be a great scratch, especially if they do Pioter Jan Marab. then that's like a number one contender fight, assuming Corey gets past Mario Bautista next weekend.

Diego Lopez, Yajir Rodriguez, they got a ton of beef. When do we actually have beef anymore in the UFC? I feel like that never happens. I don't care if Diego's talking about moving a lightweight, do it a fucking lightweight. I don't care. Yajir, go up there. You want to fight him? Fight him.

Ilya, Mauricio Huffy. It's a big step down for Ilya, but it's a fun-ass fight, man. You can't tell me that shit would not be fun. Put it in a five-round main event. A ton of fun there. Hokeet Volkov is really just like what should happen that heavyweight because presumably you're doing the

gone Espinol rematch next. This is like number one contender Hokit Volkov, let's see who's next. And then JDM, Leon Edwards, I like both these guys a lot. They have the same manager. Really just one of them needs a bounce back and again, we have a lot of questions where both of them are at. So I feel like

let's just see, put them against each other, see who's got what? Jed's already rubbing his face. What are you got? Jed, what do you got about this list? It is perfect To Poria Riffey's really fun Right like that's that would just be we'd have a great time That's a tough comeback fight bro

It's an incredibly difficult comeback It shouldn't happen But if they booked it No would be too upset by it right I intentionally didn't put Diego Lopez in a fight Because of topic three which we'll get to Momentarily But great fight totally cool with that

Hoke at Volkov is The least inspiring thing to do with Hokka at heavyweight but wouldn't be a bad fight. The one that made my head, like, made me grab my head. And it was not in condemnation of you, Long Island. JDM Edwards is just like, it's that special kind of sad fight where everybody likes the guys.

And the take is, well, one of them has to win, right? Like, it's, it's, it's, we, they can't both keep losing in sad and depressing ways. Exactly why it's perfect. Nice bounce back for one of them. Let's go. It's not bad matchmaking, but it's just kind of a bummer to be like, eh, one will lose, but at least one can win. That's fair.

The Hulk at Volkov for me does nothing. I get your point, and I don't disagree with it, that like this is kind of like what the division should be doing to an extent, but it just doesn't move me. To me, Hoofee's too much of a tough fight for Tuporia's comeback. If you really want to see if Tuporia has any return to upside, dude, Lopez Rodriguez, just impossible to dislike. O'Malley Sanhagen, impossible to dislike. Jadiam Edwards, I don't like as much as the two last fights I mentioned,

but I do like that one a lot as well. I do think it's a good stylistic pairing as well. So that list is pretty good. I think it's a pretty good fights on this card that could be made. I want to see the comments what everyone thinks who had the best list. Jed, I want to hear myself. Can I just note for posterity sake that definitionally, Luke saying that Ruffy is a really difficult test

and probably too big a test for Tuporia and that he, you know, you want to see how he looks coming back against somebody easier and he booked him against Pimlet is Luke just straight up taking shots at Patti Pimplett, which I'm here. Well, I mean, hold on, let's back up a second here. Like, dude, the art of matchmaking, I don't need to tell you all,

it's part art, it's part science. You got a guy who just lost about, lost his undefeated record, lost at a history, historic card, lost his placement in pound for pound, and got fucking physically beat up about it. If you are a promoter and you want that person to have any kind of long-term upside, you need to give him about that, you know, is some kind of a test. But if you get that wrong and he gets fucked up again, you've ruined the whole shit. Like this is a thing that you cannot, you know, and again, the other sort of beauty of picking

Patty is like, dude, again, I didn't think Justin Gachie was going to win. I don't think Patty would win. but like let's just say he does. Well then if you're Ilya, like you, you know, the matchmaking, it's like it would be such a proving ground for Patty at that point. It'd be a huge reputation boost. And if you're Ilya and you can't beat Patty on the comeback, I mean, you got some big fucking questions to answer at that point.

Like this is to me exactly the right fight to make for a guy you care about trying to get back on the horse. No, disagreeing. I just think it's funny that the way it is framed. is like Ruffy's good and Patty sucks. I didn't say quite like that, but, you know, there's strength, strength of schedule matters. Strength of schedule matters.

All right, good list. I appreciate that. Let's go to topic number three if we can. And we've got another list for you here, a little bit different this time. Listen. And you're there.

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On the road to the July 19th final 2026 FIFA World Cup Stream it all live on TSN Radio Available on IHeard Radio So Diego Lopez kind of indicated this week That he's in a bit of a no man's land At 145 pounds And is considering a move to 150,000

pounds. So he may not end up doing it. You know, it's really hard to say. Here's the quote. As long as Volcanovsky doesn't retire, it's going to be hard to get another title shot. I'm definitely in a bit of a tough spot. I have the desire to move up to 155 and take on an exciting fight. Okay, challenge accepted in terms of the matchmaking, Jed. We don't need five this time, but if he does go to 55, give me three fights you could make for him and then give me the logic behind why you would give them to me. Here is, as it stands today, both the media and then the meta rankings

that we have for the UFC's 155 pound division. My first choice, if this were to happen, is Max Holloway, win or lose against Connemarger coming up. It's just super fun, right? Like, you know, they're both 1-45ers who've moved or are moving up. Never got it, right? And so it's, you know,

You just put two incredibly fun guys together and see what happens, right? And especially I'm like even more interested now because these were just a striking matchup. I would comfortably pick Max to win. But Oliver had such a dominant performance against Max with the grappling. And Diego is a very good grappler that like it's pretty competitive. I just, it's just an easy one. Like that was the one that was immediate to me. Then I considered some others.

And I ultimately, as you saw on the graphic, I went Riffie. because Ruffie's real fun. And like, Diego, I just view Diego Lopez as an action fun guy at this point. And so, again, Rufi got demolished on the floor by Binwasse on Deney,

but he would probably demolish Diego on the feet. So fun little style matchup. And then Dan Hooker, that feels like probably the most likely of it to happen of like, they're probably not going to give him a guy in the top 10 immediately, because sort of how that ends up shaking out for him. him, but you can get a guy who's still ranked. Really fun action, dude.

There's no wrong way to book Diego Lopez. I got some problems with him. Actually, that's untrue. There is a wrong way to book Diego Lopez, and it's in another title fighting for Konopsky. No, because it's still fun, right? Like, you can have fun with it, but like, that's it. Like, I just view him as he is a guaranteed good time.

And so I picked three dudes who will have, like, we would have a lot of fun. watching that FICO. But you pick, throw a dart at anybody in the top 25 at lightweight and it wouldn't be bad. Yeah,

I mean, part of making this list difficult was the point you just raised, which is like, there's really, I mean, like you look at these matchups, it's like which one of them are bad.

I mean, the gamrot fight, even that one wouldn't be bad because of the grappling battle. You could pick, you know, as you mentioned, Dan Hooker,

the Tom, starting to get to Tom Nolan and whatnot. Maybe that's not so interesting. But they got Fiziv down at 13. I mean, there's just a, of so many choices because of what Diego can do that make it all pretty great. Let me ask you a question, though, before I show you my list, which is, is there a wrong way

to matchmake Lopez at 55 under the following consideration that a lot of times you might not want to put him against, you know, top five in part because he wouldn't just deserve a top five guy? But I'm not talking about that. I'm not talking about like the number next to the name and like what's appropriate given the meritocracy of it. I'm saying who in terms of a 55 first fight there would be a bridge

too far? What kind of a fighter 55 are we talking about? I mean a bro, I say actually yeah, pull those up, let me look. I think a bridge too, because like you you could even book to Puri and it'd be fun even if a touch silly. For me,

for example, Jed, like for example, even if Oliva didn't have the belt, that's a bridge too far for me. It's a little Yeah, it's too, it's a little too up there. And it's, I think the answer to me is a person who's immediately entitled contention, right? Is it's just like, I don't need to see Diego Lopez instantaneously become a number one or number two contender at lightweight. Max would be the highest we'd go, but also Max feels like he's not really in the mix at this point in time because he just lost. but like anybody on a like i don't want deigo lopez to fight bin wasandini if he beats

you know patty pimblit or whatever that doesn't seem good to me uh i agree with you on charles olivera to purr it would be fun but also that we shouldn't be doing that with him so that sort of top five-ish line probably is where i would delineate the bridge too far all right with that in mind let's take a look at my list see what you think here these are the fights to make for diego he moves to 55. Yari Rodriguez. Now, you might say, well, Rodriguez is at 45, but we just had news this week

that hit from his teammate that he is likely to go to 55. So I'm kind of positing that that's a fight there. Two 45ers moving up to 55, to me, makes like all the sense in the world to put them together. And beyond that, they have the heated rivalry, the style clash.

Like, to me, if Diego is going to go to 55 and Yair is going to go to 55, their first fight to you should be against each other. just feel like that's the easiest call in the world to make. All right. So next on there, I'm going to skip Quill and I'll come back to him. Maricio Huffy, we both had him on the list. Like, he's just a can't miss, like, action fight of the highest level and, you know,

great style contrast with Diego Lopez. Can't miss on that one either. It's funny how well Huffy features into a lot of the conversations we've been having. The last one I went with was Quill and Saul Kilt. I realized this is a bit of a reach. and there's, I grant that there's, you know, for example, there's other fights you could make that could be better. But I kind of wanted to see what this one would look like.

This is what I mean. Salt Kild is a natural 55er. Diego's coming up. I think Diego's got, in certain respects, more skills, and other ones not as many. And because he would be against a naturally slightly bigger guy, I actually feel like that fight could be a really great test for both of them to see exactly, you know, where they are.

at this moment in their career, what could be done in 55, the ultimate upside. I kind of like that, to me, that's like a sneaky, good one when you really begin to think about some of the advantages each of them might have. So that's my list. What did I get right? What did I get wrong? Again, no wrong answers with Diego Lopez. I think, Yair is the one that makes the most sense if he's coming up to 155.

These two dudes just should have fought forever ago. Throw that on the next noche. Easy does it, right? we obviously agree on Riffie. And then I don't like the Salkild matchup. It would be fun. Don't get me wrong. I don't know if Quill and Saul Kild is good.

I do not know how good he is because he has beaten old or overmatched opposition mostly. And while Diego Lopez is a good fighter, how good is Diego Lopez the lightweight? I don't know. So I want Kill and Saul Kild's fight like next opponent. to be an established dude, like in the lightweight division who I have a baseline. Like, I know he's this good, but isn't the Nile Dary Euse, who was great in his day, but his day is not here anymore, you know? So that's the one I would take some umbrage with, but that's not because the fight's bad.

It's just if Salt Killed loses, okay, but if he wins, I still don't feel like I've learned what I need to from him. Long Island, do you have any changes you would make or any additions? I mean, Yawir is obviously the answer. But funny enough, the other two fights I had in mind, you guys both shit all over. And those were Charles Olivera and fucking Benoit Saint-Anie. Like, I'm not saying he deserves a top five opponent in his lightweight debut. But those are fun-ass fights, man.

Him and Charles in Brazil. Do you not worry about BSD being much bigger than him? Probably. But also if BSD wins, that fight doesn't make any sense against Patty. If BSD loses to Patty, now I think that fight makes a lot more sense for Diego. If he loses to Patty, I'm okay with it. But he is not going to lose to Patty. So, yeah, I also, I mean, with TBD, Jed, you know,

we still got a week to mole that pickover, but, you know. I don't need to mole. Dude, that, BSD is my guy. He's got Bozo all in him. And I love him. All right. Well, either way, Charles, main event, Brazil. You can't tell me that wouldn't be fun.

And BSD versus Diego Lopez. Fuck, man. And Charles, you could even put the BMF on the line. I don't think anyone would complain if Diego Lopez was up for the BN. The man took a fight on like three hours notice that one time. Like he is pretty bad motherfucker, as stupid as that belt is, but whatever. All right. There we go.

Those are the three that we would pick. You say BMF and Luke just tunes out. He's just rightfully so. Rightfully so. It's the dumbest thing in combat sports. I don't hate the BMF bouts or the belts like you guys do. I don't like the BMF belt. Well, the thing is like I don't, how do I feel about it?

People are like, man, fuck that belt. give a fuck about that, but I'm like, yo, like, the bell did not bang your mother. Like, calm your tithies. It's not that big a deal. Like, you know, it's, like, it's a fun little thing. It helps the guys get a little extra money. You know, what does it mean? I don't know. It means what you want it to mean, but it's not like, it's not like some kind of cancer in the sport. An interim title to me is actually much worse. All right. Well, when it's used inappropriately, I'll say that. All right. Let's go to topic number four if we can. Now, as I mentioned, there's a series of much smaller fights and events this weekend,

both in boxing, Bear a knuckle, as well as MMA, and there's just kind of this constellation of things happening around the country, around the globe. So here's the challenge, right? Pick one from any of the various cards that you've got your eye on and make the case why it matters and or why others should watch. Here you have this graphic that's made by Kaposa, Grabaka Hitman, is the most essential follow in all of MMA Twitter.

Here are the bouts and events this weekend. If it's at the center, Caposa kind of considers that one to be the biggest. That's the Abdelah Mason fight. But you can see above that there's the BKFC one. There's a series of MMA cards that are happening around the country or the world as well. Aries, you can see on the left there is a French promotion. All right. So with all of that in mind, Jed, who you got?

What fight should we have our eye on and why? I mean, so I just don't follow boxing closely enough. Like, I know who of Dillamason is, but I don't. And like, it's a big, heavy, two very undefeated fighters fighting. I just don't know enough to be like, is the rest of this card meaningful or good? How much should I actually care about Adela Mace? Like, I've heard the name, but I am not like, you should care. He is, he is, he has the potential to be an American star.

I'll put it that way. And then, like, in general, I would also always default to Caposa's opinions on almost anything when it comes to combat sports. A man's a crazy person. We love him for it. If I'm picking one for me, well, I think the BKFC event has charm, right?

Like Austin Trouts for a title, Britten Hart like that, that has some fun to it. And it's a BKFC event. They're usually quick and fun. From a straight MMA standpoint, I think the best thing going on, on his Ares.

Areas is a pretty good little promotion, right? Like, they're on Fight Pass, so it's easy to watch, assuming you have Fight Pass. If you're watching this program, you probably do, right? Like, that just feels like that audience overlaps. And they've got a couple of good, like I pulled the card up. Some fights, too, that don't matter, but a couple of good prospects. Jordan Zibo looks like he might actually be a very good French prospect on the rise, right?

like he's in his early 20s 10 and 1 10 and 2 something like that fighting and Fialho who is sort of like that's kind of what you get he's a veteran he's been around the block but like Zibo should be able to kind of show out some other like other minor prospects developing and so like if you're just an MMA person give me Aries like it's turned out a lot of pretty decent fun fighters yeah that's where I'm at dude Aries is great it's a really good promotion man dude it's a very good promotion it's where lazy king came from uh i think cedric dunei may have fought for them as well i'm i'm not sure about the uh i don't so he is zibo lost to dune bay and pfl pfl and that's like but like that's his only loss he's good fighter

aries has got a little bit of that of that lFA thing where it's like oh this guy was an lFA champion and that doesn't mean they're going to do a lot of winning in ufc but you're automatically going to be like okay you know you know he can buy you know he can buy that you can do a little something yeah you you are a worthy adversary and uh you know we'll see what you can do there there's been a bunch of guys who was the french guy they got from aries who just lost before on this fucking war in the last it was on the card for um of loyve and murphy was it axel sola sola yeah actual solar couldn't crack man and he is you know he's still raw he did lose that fight but he could go and clearly tell he's got a lot of ability and i know a lot of people

a year over high on him, at least for long term. So yeah, dude, you can't go wrong with Aries. There's just a lot of talent. And dude, one more time, like, you know, PFL tries to go to France sometimes. One obviously is over doing everything in Asia. Like, UFC doesn't go to France all that often. And there's a lot of demand in France for MMA. Aries is one of the most important contributor, if not the most important contributor for that market.

So something to keep in mind. Also, that's on Friday. So just if you're tuned into that, that's, that is tomorrow. better on fight pass you can you can keep your fourth open if you want for me i'm going to go a slightly different direction i'm going to go towards bkfc now i'm not a big bkfc guy you know to the extent that we covered bkfc on mk it was kind of because bc really wanted to he was bc bc i i never really fought him on it but it just was not it's not a priority for me and i you know is it just not to your taste or is there something structurally you're opposed to there's nothing i

structurally opposed to about bare knuckle and um certain guys as we have seen have transformed their careers by going to it mike perry you know you could name him and there'd be other ones as well the guy i'm about to them i think you could also add to that list um so i'm not i don't oppose it in that sense but you know they this is not it's not like b i mean all promotions to some degree are a little scummy bkFC is no exception in that regard the frankie agger stuff a guy died under their watch. They've hired white nationalists. Did you, did you see the news this week, Luke? Joe Loz-on, baby? Yes, Joe Loz-on.

They're going to go to Fenway. I mean, if people want to be in on the BKFC thing as a brand, I leave it to them. But the fight I wanted to highlight is the main event this coming weekend, if I may. On the left side of your screen here, that is Austin Trout. Austin Trout was a very, very good boxer, a world champion, and kind of just felt like he was getting done wrong in the world of boxing. And there's been a number of fights you can go back to, for example, the Canelify with open scoring, where I felt like he was getting completely screwed,

and it just kind of changed the whole tenor of the fight. Anyway, he's been doing media about this particular event, and he has said something to me that you just don't see a lot of boxers say, especially ones who were world champions, like guys who like tried and fell short, they tend to be a little bit more bitter about the game, but even then they're like, you know, boxing gave me everything. Not Austin Trout.

Austin Trout this week said explicitly, he wants the sport of boxing to wither and die, to go away completely. And not in the kind of way where he was saying like, you know, I want to be done with it. No, no, no, no, no. He wants the world to be done with the sport of boxing.

like he feels so damaged, not just physically by it, but I mean the politics of it and the way in which he was kind of always brought in to be B-sides and how he got presented in that way. He hated it. And he's been in bare knuckle now for a little while and kicking people's asses. He's undefeated in bare-knuckle. He's the welterweight champion, I believe. He's gone down to 55 now.

Wait, wait, is this weight class be? What can I talk? What weight class? Oh, this is the lightweight championship. It's 155. So now he's going for the double gold here at BKFC. If you've seen him in BKFC, his style of boxing has adapted pretty well on top of that. So this is what I mean, Jay, you're asking, like, do I have an objection to bare knuckle? No, especially because honestly, Austin Trout is like, you know, Paulie Malinaghi was a two-weight world champion, but never had big power.

And by the time he was fighting Arts in lowball, he was so fucking washed. You know what I mean? I like Paulie a lot. but like that was just too far gone. Trout is not that washed. He's not his prime anymore, but he still looks pretty good, and he certainly has the technical superiority

to the vast majority of these guys, you know, in almost all cases. He's way better than them. I don't know. Like, I don't want to see boxing burnt to the ground, but like he's got a bit of a count of Monte Cristo vibe going. I kind of like it. I kind of want to see what he's up to this weekend.

I'll be honest. I mean, sure, it could be that. Or you just really want to talk about him fighting a guy named Boner. I thought it was Bonner. Dicks. Dicks everywhere. I was just playing for the soundbite. He's been really fun in BKFC.

I've watched a lot, I guess, a lot more BKFC than you have. I'm not like in love with the promotion. And there are definitely times where you feel a little grimy about it. But they put on like, there is a pretty high floor for how much fun you can have watching a BKFC event. they go by really quickly. Like they've got sort of pacing usually is timed out. I've been a little worse with that sometimes this year.

I had no idea about the trout stuff. So that is genuinely, I've never heard someone say I want the sport to wither and die, just about any sport. So that's unique. But he seems to like be very good at at bare knuckle boxing. And like I said, like when I shouted this out,

I think there's a couple of things that are interesting on the BKFC. card and if you are just want some sort of mindless violence, like you don't want to have to think too hard, you're never going to go wrong tuning in to BKFC. I have no idea how you watch this one. Is this one on the zone or whatever?

I don't fucking know. People can look it up. It's his own symbol there, I think. Yeah. I mean, you know, who knows? People just steal shit these days. I don't even know.

But you're right. You don't hear people like, oh, I hope the sport completely disappears from fucking earth. you tend to not hear that. But I also, dude, I love revenge tours. I don't know. There's something about him that are kind of cool. And he's got a bit of a Michael Douglas falling down vibe.

And I'm like, all right, let's fucking see what you can do. And by the way, you do, nobody beats Luis Palomino twice by accident and bare knuckle. Like, Palomino is tough as shit. And, uh, plus this event has the guy who throws canoles at his opponents, whatever his name. Once again, that guy's literally bad. But it's kind of over for me at this point. No, it's like, it's actually growing on me the more he does it. Exactly.

The more can only like, hell yeah, this guy's the man. He's also from Philly and this is in Philly. Yeah. It's so dumb, but it kind like, I'm with Long Island. It's like, I don't know, man. The first time it's like really, you're just going to, now it's like time four or five. It's like, all right.

That's funny. Dude, BKFC goes to Philly a lot. The last time I was in Philly just with my family, they had a BKFC event and that was what January or February? I don't know if they're based in Philly but I'm pretty sure Feldman is from Philly. He is from Philly. I know that

it looked like they were going to an event an arena that they can't quite sell out which I'm curious about. No, they're at the Comcast. They're at the Comcast Arena. That's the big one. Yeah. Or the Xfinity Mobile which is Comcast but yeah. It appears that there are plenty of tickets available

if you'd like to attend which feels like they maybe should aim a little smaller for something like that. BKFC it like sort of merits a broader discussion about them as a promotion because at various times they have been certainly for us and I'm fighting like a super hot commodity right of like people are interested in this but it feels like they've lost a lot of momentum this year. I don't know if it's an R.F has sort of stolen that energy from them or what but they don't if it's just that Mike Perry seems to be doing his own thing. But I've thought about them less than I have the last couple of years.

And it's strange. I don't know what their future holds. It's never appointment viewing for me. It's never one of those things where it's like, oh, I got to sit down and watch. It's like, again, to the extent of the BC wanted to make it part of the show, I was just like, fine, whatever. And occasionally, you'll catch a fight. That's kind of interesting for sure.

Did you watch the Darren Till one? I did watch the Darren Till one. Yes. He looked pretty good. He did. Well, he got dropped early and then he kind of came back. But yeah, he looked good in that fight. So, I mean, like I said, like Mike Perry, Mike Perry beating MVP was fucking insane.

You know, like, it's not to say that, oh, there's, you know, I guess if you had a objection to BKFC as a brand because of what they've done, that's one thing. But if that's not a impediment and you're just asking about the action itself, even then, for me, it's not destination viewing. but it's hard to sit there and be like, oh, they don't have good action time to time or, you know, there's no reason why people are hot on them, or at least have been historically. It does make sense once you watch it in that sense, you know. All right. With that in mind, let's go now to our final topic of the day, which is a bit of a boxing roundup, because if anything, boxing just continues to be wild as hell.

So let's go piece by piece on this one. I think we have the graphics here. We've got both Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua have announced their tune-ups before their bouts against one another have been scheduled. The one for Tyson Fury is supposed to be in Thailand. The one for Anthony Joshua is in Saudi Arabia.

If you look up either of these gentlemen's records, either walk or I'm going to share it pronounced his last name. And then Pranga, same thing. You know, not like these are, these are going to be a way. of your time, right? Do we have a feeling, Jedmishu? Which one is actually worse? Is this a question?

Right? Yes. Which one is not? I mean, look, like Pranga, I don't know a lot about Pranga, but like, Pranga at least isn't watch. It's like, I don't, Pranga's 35, you know, he's, he's only lost once in his boxing career. He fought and won.

won this year, not against anybody good, but like, he's a dude who is a tune-up fight, but you should, like, I kind of almost even feel bad using that phrasing because, you know, he does have like a level of accomplishment. He hasn't done anything important, but he's won a lot of boxing match. He's a professional boxer. Mary's watch, like, he fought Klitschko. Like, that was, that was like the heyday of his career. and since then he's

alternated wins and losses mostly. Do you, I assume that you are aware of this, Luke, but in case you weren't, you know that he did an exhibition MMA three on one fight in Poland like last year? Yes. It is, great, it was wonderful.

You can go find the video. Like, he is, he's 46 years old. Yeah, he's old as shit. He's old as shit. He hasn't like had a real win streak since 2016 or something. Like it's

this is, it beggars belief. Like this is absolutely the definition of tune up. But like, dude, just bring that guy in for a sparring partner. Why are we pretending to have this as a real fight?

Like that is, it is shameful. Fury's is much more shameful to me than Joshua's. Joshua's is not good, but it is sort of how business is done. Yeah. This is an embarrassment. I mean, the fact that it's in Saudi Arabia sucks,

but Pranga as an opponent is 20 and 1, as you indicated, 35 years old. He shouldn't win, but it's boxing. Dude, the merriest fucking walk fight, I mean, what are we doing, dude? This is Tyson Fury just, I mean, wasting everybody's fucking time with this one. Truly an irredeemable fucking fight, if ever there was one. I mean, you know, I'm not. going to pay. I mean, we have to pay close attention to it when they eventually happen anyway, but, you know, I'm not, I'm not waiting on these with bated breath. I'll put it that way.

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Next, Turkey Alshake is hosting something of a boxing summit with the sports boxing's top promoters, except here's the catch. No Dana White Siding. And Nick Kahn was seen with Turkey, but not with the larger group of, you know, Queensberry, match room, you know, you got DeZone, some of these other promoters, and then obviously broadcasters. all together. So like what really is the point of the summit? Turkey afterwards was tweeting Jed, hey, you know, this went great. Big things are ahead. Blah, blah, blah, blah. Seemed to have an upbeat tone. Who the hell knows what any of it means? But I'm curious if you feel like

you've got a beat on kind of what you can decipher here. Not really. Like it's, he can sort of call the shots to do that because everybody suckles at the teat of Turkey, right? Like they all want the money that Saudi will provide. I don't, you know, like it, it's possible that it is just like, oh, the guys I'm the closest with Nikon and, you know, Dana White, whatever, like, these are people that I interact with commonly outside of this. I don't, they don't have to come to this for whatever reason. It would make a little more sense if they were all together and this was like a, you know,

meeting of the five family sort of thing. The absence of that is, I don't know. And I don't know if that's just like turkey laying down the law about how you. you're going to get his money for those other people. Like I don't, do you have a beat on this? I don't, it is strange to me that a boxing summit would occur without other major partners that he works with. My beat is that Nick Kahn is pictured separately for a reason.

Like, the thing is, you know, when Turkey says jump, guys like Eddie Hearn will say how high, you know, and I like Eddie, but that's just the. reality. You know, it's just a reality. Zufa's not quite like that. Like, they definitely want to partner with Saudi Arabia, and they definitely want to give Saudi Arabia bang for their buck and to feature them and promote their interests and blah, blah, blah, you name it. Like, they're also a very compliant, willing partner, but they're more partner than they are, you know, acolyte or, you know, they don't need

him. They don't need them in the same way, and they don't treat them the same way. And as a consequence, they want, like, dude, it's just, it's just, if you've been around UFC for as long as I have betting, and then, you know, now it's, you know, it's, I realize we're talking about TK.O. And Zufa boxing, which is separate entities, but the culture that permeates this place. Like, if you just know anything about that and you've seen it as long as I have, they're not going to sign up to some kind of deal to be on par with anybody else. Like, no. And I know that they're not suggesting a deal was signed here, maybe some kind of informal agreement or to your point,

Turkey laying down the law, you know, I don't know, well, I guess we'll see. But like, I just don't believe fundamentally at all. You are going to get Zufa boxing and the guys who run it to be like, yeah, we really got to work hard with these other promoters. They're changing the fucking laws here so they don't have to do that. Like, it just doesn't make sense to me. And then the fact that Nick Khan was featured separately with this,

to me, kind of gives the game away. I mean, honestly, yeah, you're probably right. Like, what do you think he's telling the others, though, right? Because, I mean, the dichotomy is already drawn. Like, Nikon, TKL, they're trying to take over boxing. They're trying to UFC advise it and, you know, strip out competitive prices, etc. What is Turkey talking to the other consortium of promoters who are there together, right? Like, how is it about the UFC?

Is it just like these are separate entities in his mind? What do you think is going on? He might be telling them, A, of like specific bouts. We need to work together, you know, Ryan Garcia this or who knows, right? That's part of it. I think on the other side, what is probably telling them is, you know, I'll bring them to heal. Don't worry, you know, blah, blah, blah. And whether he will or whether he even has any intention to seems an entirely different kind of consideration.

But, you know, I just think he's telling him. him what he has to, to be honest with you. I just absolutely do not believe you're going to get Turkey as powerful as he is and as influential as he is. And I don't dispute that he is, obviously. But dude, this is, this would be, this would be Zufa going against everything they've ever shown themselves to be. And I just don't buy it. I just don't buy it. So, uh, all right, we'll see though. Right. All right. Next story. After relinquishing all of his titles, Alexander Usik wants a final fight. And for that, this fucking guy is considering

John Jones or Deontay Wilder. Let me be as very clear about this as I can. Both of these fights are stupid as shit, and neither should be made. One to me is more defensible than the other. Like, what is Ussick doing, Jed Mishu? What is this shit? Which one is more defensible?

Wilder is more defensible. Wilder is more. Defensible, wilder. Yeah, obviously. He's done. He's retired for all intends and purposes. He is grabbing cash. And I don't blame him.

That's fine. I felt that way about the Rico fight. And, you know, now it's a little more formalized because he's, he's abandoning his belts and talking big nonsense. But like, the Rico fight wasn't, I mean, it ended up being interesting. It ended up being quite a fun fight. But heading into that, you know, we're all. like okay yeah sure like I guess he deserves to get a a payday and have some fun and do the geiza

pyramids thing like he's beaten everybody we don't need to do mandatory stuff whatever but now like this is just a much more formalized version of that like I don't want to I have I've defeated boxing I have done it your options are to either stay atop as long as you can and sort of ride the rhythms of of it and but he's old you don't want to want to do that shit. So he gets the RICO fight. Then it's like, all right, you need to take a real fight. I don't want to do that. Fuck that. Here, take the belts back. I don't need them. They're meaningless to me. The John Jones one is obviously patently silly and stupid. The Wilder one is also like silly in some respects, right? But there's at least a piece of me that

accepts and maybe even like, it's like, okay, that's fair. Just because is Deonté Wilder going going to give him a serious challenge at the stage of his career? No. He is like the last infinity stone of those heavyweights, right? That's like the generation of heavyweights to add to his collection. And so if he just wants to do that as a sense of the completionist in him, it's like, I should beat everybody. Even if it's past his prime. Let me get that one in. And then then we're good. I'm okay with that. And I'm okay doing it the way he's done it. He's not doing this while holding the belts and pretending that this is real, he acknowledges that this is a side quest nonsense for him.

And, you know, boxing can move on without him. I got, I got no issues to that. The John Jones one is very stupid, though. I hate the John Jones one. I hope that the Wilder one isn't made either, but that one's more defensible because it's just boxing versus whatever the fuck John Jones would be doing, which again is not going to happen. Do you think Wilder is better or worse than Verhoeven was?

Worse. you think so yeah teante wilder is an actual boxer who did just win like against a not a great opponent but like you know Derek Chazor is a

qualityish win no these guys are mega washed they're mega washed I don't think that Verhoeven you know if he went for a career in boxing would have the up the the win the I don't think he'd go as far as Wilder went and even if you want to say Wilder went that far on

power fine but he also had historic power so whatever um but like both of these are dumb the only thing that's defensible to me jet is that like if you look at usik's record you know the guy was just a road warrior you never got that you know Kiev or some other place homecoming he always fought in everyone's backyard or he fought in neutral territory or you know he just never had that and if he fought in las Vegas he wouldn't have it either but it would kind of be something like that where they're doing something for him to give him a big fight night i think he wants a big Vegas fight night you know it's sort of like a gift to him in that sense. And you could very much argue,

given everything that he's given to the sport, and again, on terms that were not very favorable, very favorable very often, that he would deserve it. But that's the only way you could do it. Like other than that, it's just,

you know, Deonté Wilder should not be fighting, just straight up. It is, I did not realize this. It is crazy that he's never fought in Vegas, like to have a big heavyweight title fight, not a title fight if he bails on the titles,

right? But like, yeah, you know, I don't think that the outcome, come is in question should either of these fights happen but John Jones is silly

beyond belief and shouldn't get sanctioned again John DeWald is a professional boxer he's coming off some wins is he washed yes we'll lose to beat him 100% I get it I'm I'm fine with that like who else who else are you really would you prefer to see

if we're not doing the let's be hyper competitive let's fight the best dude possible but like here's a going away legacy present for you. Who else would you pick for him? I don't have one. I don't care. Like, that means, you know, oh, like, I am not an Usoc. I mean, I'm a fan of Uc, but I'm not so much a fan of Usoc that I'm like, yeah, dog, fight whoever you want. We love you no matter

what. No, fuck that, bro. You know, like, fight somebody I give a fuck about or just hang it up, and this is not that, you know, so. He's beating all the people. I know. Well, there's, well, there's Cabayel who's out there. Because he, Cabell's like the only one. Cabell's the one. And then all Moses-E-Tomboz was the other one too. Fuck it. Have David Benavides move all the way up to heavyweight. Let's run it.

Look, I would, that would be cool. That would undeniably be very cool. That would be cool. But again, I don't, I think Ussick could ever go back down to cruiserweight?

Do that fight at cruiserweight? That could be fun. He's never going to do that. Probably not at this stage of things. And like, again, why would he want to? Just like he's,

for what? I am always willing to allow all-time greats to have, you don't want them to get, like very silly forever but you you know it's okay for it to be a one-off thing of like yeah well yeah man you you earned it you earned some leeway here i'm okay with him taking this all right last but not least this is an interesting one dana was talking didn't why it was talking to the media about floyd mayweather's money troubles which have turned into now legal troubles like criminal legal troubles and Floyd's in a bad space jed before we react to it i want you to

hear what Dana had to say to it. And then I want to ask you a question about it. Here's Dana. Thoughts are on the unfortunate news that we're seeing so many headlines with Floyd Mayweather Jr. losing like $170 million. Just your opinion on that. Yeah. Yeah, that's a tough one.

And I've talked to him about it, but I don't know enough about it here, all these different stories. I think you have to wait to see how this thing's going to play out in court for him. but when when somebody works as hard as he did and you know umasses the type of wealth that he had and then you know they lose it or it gets stolen or whatever the whatever the deal is it's horrible and it happens a lot in professional sports um so um who knows anything is possible maybe we could do something and figure it out for him jed two responses i would have to this one is that it's really nice to see that there's a little bit of humanity in dana about

someone else's troubles like i mean that sincerely but the thing that is very weird for me it's like you're worried about Floyd's money troubles what about your own fighter's money troubles the first question i'd ask and then the second question i'd ask is more to you jed which is is dana white about to sign floyd mayweather to zupa boxing no flood i don't how would that even that seems unlikely to me um he might try you know hang on a second guys hang on hang on i guess someone coming home and they don't know that i'm still recording hang on one second hang on one second jed just take it away oh uh no i don't think that he is going to sign floyd may whether he may try to do such a thing right like that's possible

well i would floyd sign with him though would be my real question it's like you know i i know that Zufa has given out a lot of money, right? To fighters who probably Conorbin got more money than he probably is worth on an open market. Would Zufufe would be willing to pay Floyd what he can command in such a situation, right? Like Floyd may be there's still a driver of business. And so like there was, I guess it's probably not happening. It was. It wasn't.

I don't know where we stand on the Floyd Manny 2 thing. But like that still could. be done and I don't think Zufo would take, you know, the percentage, like a 10% cut or whatever as a promoter that Floyd probably would demand like based on his historical thing of like, I get the bulk of the revenue here. If so, and they ultimately decide to do it as just a business move to be involved in something big. But I think I genuinely loop to your previous point or like as you framed it, it did just sort

feel like a genuine moment of empathy from Dana White for a guy he is on good terms and friendly with. And it is very hard to know what's real and what's not here. Like he's alleging 170 millions abroad. He's got millions of dollars that the IRS is trying to put a lien on him for for backtax his failure to pay. He's also the plaintiff in some other suits. Like there's a bunch of, there are a bunch of numbers surrounding Floyd right now. And I just do not know. Like, was he defrauded? Was he bad with money? Like, how did this shake out?

But it feels to me more like, Dana is just like, yeah, I know Floyd. We've been on pretty good terms. You know, we're, I've his number to chat with him periodically. And it, it would be a bummer to see your friend, even if maybe they're part of the problem, right? Like, I actually had a not dissimilar personal situation, not for $170 million, obviously,

recently where it's like, even if maybe Floyd is to blame, you can still be like, man, that sucks. That like you're partially to blame that this is happening. Because Floyd Mayweather's made enough money that he said, like that, not that he said, he's made enough money that he should have never been able to lose it all. And it looks like that that has happened.

And that's a real bummer. Yeah, fair enough. I think there's a strong point. I don't, I'll just say this to wrap it up. I don't think that they're going to sign him to Ziva boxing because he might have like he literally might be in jail soon. But honestly, if there is a way for them to sign him, I think that they would, I think that there's, there's more, I'll say this, unlikely for all the reasons aforementioned, but not impossible. We'll see.

All right. With that in mind, now we have to get to where you guys get to hold our feet to the fire for getting them wrong. You always send them morning combat at gmail.com. It's time for dead wrong. Dead wrong. Okay, here we go. From RJ, Luke at 14212 of the May 22nd show, you dead wrong. yourself during a dead wrong segment by saying Logan storely is guilty until proven innocent

is it because you know we love dead wrong so you put a dead wrong inside of a dead wrong it was a dead wrong uh what's the movie inception yeah dead wrong yeah that's a that's an x to the z pimp my ride line we know you like dead wrong so we put a dead wrong in your dead wrong yeah all right from casey he says hail donks at the one 44 55 Mark of the May 29th episode of MK, Long Island Luke asks LT and Jed about three different Chinese fighters competing on the card. However, one of the fighters he mentions is Ray Saruya, who is most certainly not Chinese. He's Japanese. I don't blame Long Island for this mistake because he was very likely baked when he was crafting the questions, nor do I blame Jed,

who probably liquefied half of his cerebral cortex on whatever trailer park swill he drank in the Georgia Backwoods after law school. However, it is inexcusable that the leading intellectual thought leader of MMA media. I don't know about that. could overlook this mistake i probably just wasn't paying attention maybe we'll take your political opinions and name pronunciations more seriously if you brush up on middle school level geography you wash pretentious troglodyte as always i love the show and keep up the great work bring back high court i will have to take that l i guess we all have to take that l but i mean i i got to take that l but that's like a month old and i've already been shit on him plenty of times for it taking that

hell plenty of time that is pretty tough though china and japan not the same Yeah, definitely not the same. All right, from Stephen. On the White House preview show, June 9th, Luke and Co said that Netflix had a subscriber base orders of magnitude higher than Paramount Plus, timestamp 20 minutes, 48 seconds. Let the record show the relative sub-base is 325 million for Netflix. Oh, we're about to get some math. 75 million for Paramount Plus. That is in favor of Netflix by a factor of four, not an order of magnitude, which is 10x, so i.e. 1 to 10 or 10 to 100, something off by the plural, more than one older, would be at least 100x, 100x is two orders, orders being plural of order. This is a really common mistake by many Americans who think, quote, off by orders of magnitude,

end quote, means off by a lot, end quote. But anyone who's ever taken 45 seconds of their life to learn the most basic elements of metric system could learn what it actually means and avoid sounding like a Dellerd on an international broadcast. I will say that it also means by a lot in sort of a colloquial use. But yes, it does have a mathematical meaning as well. Stephen, I respect the math that you put in, but like you were talking about sounding like a dullard. There are a lot of times when people use hyperbolic words

to just mean X amount more or whatever. Yeah. Jed, when I say it's a shitload more, I don't literally mean it's a pile of feces. You know what I mean? When I use the term decimate an opponent, I do not think he's going to rip him into 10 pieces of this body. But you know what?

I love that they are thinking this way. I actually appreciate that. I do also respect that he gave us the numbers. So you got to at least, you know, he nerded hard. Yeah, yeah. I mean, also it would be different. I was like, oh, it's two standard deviations above the mean. That's like a very specific.

You should start doing that. Computation. All right. I think, I think Mauricio Rufi is two standard deviations better than Patty Pimble. That's a lightweight. I don't think that's right All right, Paul says, I have to correct you on some basic math.

On the Freedom 250 preview show on the 21 minute mark, oh, it's the same one. It's like a different guy. Yeah, a different guy, dude, a different math guy. That Netflix has more subscribers than Paramount by orders of magnitude. Since one order of magnitude is 10x and two orders of magnitude is 100x,

Netflix would have to have 100 times the subscribers of Paramount plus to be orders of magnitude bigger. For reference, Netflix says, if we know the number, $325 million versus $80 million. If you wanted to use the term correctly, you could say Long Island Luke spends orders of magnitude, more Saturday nights,

watching fight nights that he does with his girlfriend. All right, you caught a stray in there, Long Island. Take that one. That's awesome. I think Paul and Steven should be friends. Yeah. You're right. They should do a podcast together, but they just do math. All right, Danger Mouse brings up the rear. It says, Danger Mouse here to tell Chuck he's wrong at 2725

of the Freedom 250 show. He said that Justin Gachie came from a coal mining town when in fact they were mine copper factory town guys, as he should know, just saying. Fair enough. Chuck, you know what's shit about Chuck though? Chuck only does the Monday show and never has to hear for the dead wrongs. There's not many of them, but he does skip out on them, which I don't appreciate. So there you go. That's dead wrong.

I know some people who mine coal because, you know, I'm from the south. Like, that's just the thing. I wonder of copper mining is like, do you get the black lung in? copper mining. Do you think coal miners look down on copper miners is like beta level miners or somebody let us know. Let me know. What's the order of minor? I don't know the answer to that. All right. So we can see the order of miners. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We're making predatory jokes. All right. Morningcombat at gmail.com for dead wrongs as well as the next thing, which is where you send us to our artwork and ask us to put it on our proverbial fridge.

It's fan submissions. you've got mail viewers all right we've got we'll do the winner of the month in just a minute so let's do the actual memes that we got for this week Jesse has a meme for us Jed

so this is so good because I thought of this video in the moment when Oscar said it I was thinking of the British peers videos this is hilarious this is hilarious he didn't want anyone to matchmake against Izzy that because I think who called him out

Charle Bullitt called him out. And a booth. He had two callouts. That's right. And a boss. All right. This is pretty good. I'll give this one a solid.

Solid. Solid. It's solid seven. All right. Aiken. Akin has a meme? Luke's name. Dude,

the mowing the yard thing has taken on a life in ways I could never imagine. It's the best bit. It's the best bit. I don't think I've not laughed. they're they're all good like they're all good very good that's a good all right jordan has a meme let's see it okay i mean what the fuck is this okay it's a little much that's a little much i don't even want to comment on that one

how did that one get that was impressive north korean sensors good lord uh all right from chui we've got a meme you got to read what he says too before i show oh i used to think LT was crazy for saying we need less fights. Now I'm LT L.O.O. All right. We've got UFC Apex fights with standard commentary. UFC Apex fights with MCM watching along. What's MCM?

Main card minute, bro. Sorry. My bad. My bad. My bad. What the fuck? I don't know all your abbreviations. UFC Apex fights on mute. Skipping Apex fights for MKK on Monday. I tell you what, man. Like, you know, I'm not,

it's so weird to have an abundance of fights. because back in the day he would have killed for that. But now that we've got it, I'm like, maybe less is more. I don't know. I don't know about that. I will say this yet. I will say this very quickly.

The White House card only being six fights and then, you know, seven. It's perfect. It's perfect. One of my longstanding beliefs is that there should be 36 events a year, three a month, 10 fights on each, you get 360 fights a year. That's it. That's just a perfect number. It's so good.

You do one apex, one road show, one number, event each month everything's golden but that sounds like a good plan i like that plan all right uh we got we're old and washed that's true that's also true let's go to mike who's got a bunch of these let's see jett long island luke and oscar being a degenerate that's true you fucking three are in the run into that yeah that's a good one all right now let's start this live chat technical difficulties that god every time i try to outrun them i just can't that's a pretty good one too all right Oscar realizing he has been to McSorily. That was a good one.

Oscar realizing he'd been to McSorily before. He was like, I don't think I've ever been in Long Island's like, dude, you literally went with me. Like, how the fuck do you not know this? Okay. And then when a dead wrong is also in fact wrong, peace out to my haters. That's a good one. These are good.

These are all pretty good. All right, M.K. co-host, it's just fart jokes in barely any. anime talk always has been that's a good one what's the name of this meme astronaut meme or something what's the name of no idea i've never seen this before i've never seen that always has been meme no no it's a good one that's a great one all right but i think we have at least one more brian campbell in dc you want a box i throw a mean jeb do you do you know this joke uh jed no he like it's us yeah he visited dc and then he was like dude the uh boy the staff

at restaurants they don't like my jokes and like he was saying it like there's something wrong with them i'm like yeah your jokes are terrible that's why you're not funny that's the problem that's the problem is that it bc l have one more well now we got to reveal the top the winners okay so we're gonna go three to two right yeah so we're three all right it these are the winners for the june contest remember morning combat at gmail.com best uh you know best meme best artwork of the month gets a signed poster. So here we go. Number three from Mike Kay, the L.T. Grandpa, White House won. Back in my day, they fought on the White House long. Sure, Grandpa. Let's get you back to bed. That's number three. Well done. Didn't win,

but you got on the top of the list there. Number two, from John McLean, the Gachy Jed one. Jed, look at this, bro. How is this not the winner? Look at all that freedom. We all admit, this one was great. I want to say, Jed, this was my vote for number one. I got out voted. I'll just say But here's the problem. Look at all the freedom that is in that photo. This is, this is indeed a good one. This should be your profile picture.

This is indeed a good one. Honestly, probably should be. But what I will say is, the number one one just made me laugh so hard that I had to pick it. LT, when you get the green, sorry, take down the chewy part.

I can't, is it covering words? I can't take it down. Oh, it's on top of it. Basically, when you get the green light to start mowing the lawn and it's when, it's when my alert goes off that my live chat is starting.

I saw this. It's a good one. And I fucking laughed. I laughed so hard. Shout out to Chewy. Chewy. How do they get their prize, Long Island? He can either email us.

If he doesn't email us, I'll email him. Okay. Either way. So Chewy, congratulations. Well done. Keep them coming. Morningcombat at gmail.com. Four dead wrongs.

Computational math. You know, linear equations. You name it. The whole thing. You can send them all there to morning combat at gmo. Just solve string theory while you're at it, nerds. Yes. While you're at it.

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dot shop. Before we get out of here, oh, let's also remind everyone, memberships are also available on the channel for emojis, four badges, and more on that to come. You got any coverage going for the weekend that we should be aware of Jed? No, because I mean, we talked about this weekend's got nothing, but starting Monday, big time, you know, are apparently the biggest UFC event of the year, according to some people, Connor McGregor's return, USC 329 will have a full slate. Both Mike Heck and And Jose Young's will be boots on the ground in Las Vegas for this monumental event. So, you know, keep it locked.

It mayfine.com. All right. A long island, what you got going on? Well, no fights this weekend. And I will be, excuse me, going away. But I do have a new prop quiz dropping in an hour. It is Aaron Bronzetter taking on AK Lee, Jed. So it's a good one.

Tune in. Winner moves on, faces Mike Heck in the final. That'll air next week. I can't tell you how happy. You put a graphic out like earlier this week. about like the all time statistics on it long island probably the bottom yeah yeah oh you were at the bottom of course but like i i'm like in the middle but my actual average score is pretty high but i just go all in every time so i haven't done that well it's like oscar oscar's one and five

but he's gone all in every last question multiple times he's been up going into the last question just blew it all on the last yeah i was kicking the shit out of bronzetter last time and then he's a coward and didn't bet anything. And there you have it. I will not have any coverage this weekend, but of course, MK is back on Monday to get you ready for UFC through 29, as well as everything going on else in the combat sports world.

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